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Re: Making submodules easier to work with (auto-update on checkout or merge, stash & restore submodules)

From
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 30, 2008, 20:26 UTC
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On 4/30/08, Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
> Well said.
Thanks.  I'm having a bad day so a little agreement helps a lot :)
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>  > We had some discussion on the list earlier about having submodule
>  > checkouts automatically acquire a branch name, so that commits don't
>  > get lost as easily.  I was going to think about this more and
>  > eventually submit a patch, but I haven't gotten to it yet.  Anyway,
>  > the idea is that you have a branch by default, so that you don't end
>  > up in the useless situation of not being on a branch, which encourages
>  > checking in without being on a branch, in the first place.
>
> Can you give a gmane pointer to that thread?

Try this: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/78675

Note that this particular message is representative, but is not the best of the solutions proposed during that thread. Exactly which of the solutions, if any, is the best is left as an exercise to the reader :)

Have fun,
Avery
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Message 8 of 22 in “Making submodules easier to work with (auto-update on checkout or merge, stash & restore submodules)”
  1. Tim HarperApr 30, 2008
  2. Tim HarperApr 30, 2008
  3. Andreas EricssonApr 30, 2008
  4. Johannes SchindelinApr 30, 2008
  5. Avery PennarunApr 30, 2008
  6. Ping YinApr 30, 2008
  7. Roman ShaposhnikApr 30, 2008
  8. Avery PennarunApr 30, 2008
  9. Tim HarperApr 30, 2008
  10. Avery PennarunApr 30, 2008
  11. Tim HarperApr 30, 2008
  12. Avery PennarunApr 30, 2008
  13. Roman ShaposhnikApr 30, 2008
  14. Avery PennarunApr 30, 2008
  15. Finn Arne GangstadMay 1, 2008
  16. Avery PennarunMay 1, 2008
  17. Roman ShaposhnikMay 6, 2008
  18. Avery PennarunMay 7, 2008
  19. Ping YinMay 8, 2008
  20. Steven GrimmMay 1, 2008
  21. Roman ShaposhnikMay 6, 2008
  22. Ping YinMay 1, 2008

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